A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James become the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize with this enthralling novel, inspired by the true story of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.
Marlon James
Marlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Book of Night Women, and John Crow's Devil.
A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Booker Prize, the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Book of Night Women won the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the NAACP Image Award. Marlon James is a professor at Macalester College in St Paul. He divides his time between Minnesota and New York.
Winner The Booker Prize 2015
- By
- Marlon James
- Published by
- Oneworld Publications
In a dazzling display of masterful storytelling, Marlon James explores the extraordinary backstory to the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.
